What a delightful insight you’ve given us. Not only about your growth into
computer literacy, but one senses an uncommon quality of unity between
you and your wife as you work together honing your computer skills.
It occurred to me after noticing that you live in Canada, that there’s likely
a difference or two in not only the interpretation, but in the application of
laws related to the handicapped as well.
Also, it is your great good fortune to live in a town of only some fifteen
thousand, as opposed to a city burgeoning toward half a million.
I allude to these observations as a possible explanation for the variation
in our interpretation of some of those issues as indicated in our earlier
email exchanges, on the subject of laws pertaining to the handicapped.
Your gentler, more tolerant approach to the punishment of transgressors,
is much more understandable given the difference in our environs.
Foolishly, I sold a property in Eureka, Montana, just nine miles south of
the southwestern corner of the Canadian border. Wish I had decided to
live there permanently!
Good to see you posting again. Do it more often!
Regards,
Boyd
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On 9/26/04 5:59 PM, "Gale See"
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Hello everyone,
I was injured in November 1982 and I left the hospital spins September 1983 to live in the auxiliary hospital here in Claresholm while our house was being built, which we moved into December 23, 1983.
While I was living in the auxiliary hospital my oldest brother went into the hospital in Calgary with bowel cancer. As I was still too sick and under strength to travel my son and my wife bought a small computer for me. It was a Commodore 64 and it ran from tape cassettes. It had a small printer that printed out on a roll of paper that looked like a roll of toilet paper. This way I was able to write letters to my brother who was dying at the time. From there are went to a Tandy 1200 with the 10MB hard drive and 4 color screen.
When we purchased it the dealer told us that we would never fell let hard drive in a lifetime and. (Little did he know, my wife had a filled in a week). When the computer came it wasn't even assembled. It was just in a big-box and my wife read the manuals and set it up, formatted the hard drive and set all the DIP switches to get it started. From there we went to a 286, then 386, 486. There was one more after the 486 but I can't remember what was called and now we're presently running three computers that are networked. My wife has a Pentium 500 and I have a Pentium 400, she also has a Dell laptop. We also have a digital camera, a scanner, and many other pieces of equipment and that are too numerous for me to name.
In other words we've come a long way. I use a head mouse and voice command to run my equipment.
Have a great day,
Gale See :-)
